Niklas Walter
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Walter is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale automotive and travel businesses. At Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles he designs and operates reliable cloud platforms that enable software teams to ship automotive-grade systems, drawing on earlier experience developing high-performance Java server applications and microservice-based cloud software. He blends hands-on engineering with a master’s in Business Process Engineering, enabling him to align operational excellence with measurable business outcomes. Known for pragmatic automation and observability practices, he focuses on making digital products that genuinely make life easier for users and developers alike. Although primarily enterprise-focused, he remains deeply practical—favoring durable, performance-driven solutions over hype.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Business Process Engineering, Master’s Degree, Business Process Engineering at FHDW Hannover
German, English
Github Skills (132)
controller10
bitnami10
code-analysis10
command-line-tool10
ingress-nginx10
haproxy10
static-analysis10
charts10
ant-task10
helm10
ant10
kubernetes10
groovy10
eclipse-plugin10
typescript10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TwoStone/gwt-scss-resource
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
TwoStone/gradle-eclipse-compiler-plugin
Sep 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 27 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 3 months
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